Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Herodotus

Everyone experiences ups and downs in one form or another throughout their life.

In the search for success we go through the highs and lows of building up enough courage to reach for our dreams. It can be a never ending emotional rollercoaster of experiencing success and joy and then just when all seems to be going smoothly things start to fall apart and go wrong again

Finally, just as you think you are getting somewhere and everything looks rosy, just as you begin to let yourself feel that euphoric high, wham! It all goes pear shaped and belly up and you plummet into a seemingly never ending pit of depression.

It seems there is no rhyme or reason to life, or is there?

IT HAPPENS TO US ALL

Failure inspires winners. And failure defeats losers. It is the biggest secret of winners. It’s the secret that loser do not know. The greatest secret of winners is that failure inspires winning; thus, they’re not afraid of losing.

Robert Kiyosaki

It´s important to understand that this experience of ups and downs is not unusual and everybody goes through them at one time or another in every aspect of their life and throughout their life.

If you can really grasp the concept that having highs and lows is an intrinsic part of life and success you will be able to accept the low blows life deals out and plan and manage them effectively and to your benefit.

It really is as simple as just accepting that fact that it is all just a part of life and all part of the game of winning too.

To be successful you are going to have to accept that SOME YOU WIN AND SOME YOU LOSE. Yeah, maybe it isn’t exactly a revelation or an answer either. It’s probably an explanation of something you were aware of and have heard being bandied around, but maybe you never really understood the implications and impact it has had on your success until now.

Even after learning every business technique and money making technique there is to learn, even when you are happy and feel like you are in heaven, the richest person in the world or even the most famous movie star in Hollywood you are going to win some and you are going to lose some.

Once you realise that you WILL get knocked back by life and you WILL get dumped on and you WILL crash and burn, and understand that it is part of the fun and how to use it to your advantage and enjoyment you will then be the king of the hill, a lion amongst sheep, a true knight and above all successful.

PERSEVERANCE

All horsemen fall off their horses, but the mark of a true knight is the one who dusts himself down and gets back on his steed again.

Unknown

Dr. Wayne Dyer, spiritual guru to the gurus of the world says that the answer to life and achieving eternal happiness boils down to one thing and can be summed up in one word “Perseverance”.

The difference between the winners and losers in life could be down to their steadfast perseverance. One fact is for sure, you will never reach your goals by giving up. Don´t become one of those people who blame everything and everyone else for your own failures. If you have read the previous chapter and taken it on board fully you will know that you ARE going to fail probably at every hurdle. You are going to have good days and bad days. You are going to get blown out, knocked back, lose everything, get conned, ignored, laughed at, lied to, used, but, and an important but, you are now going to learn rock solid techniques to get back on your horse and persevere through all of it until you reach your goal, whatever that might be.

For many of the movie stars you see on TV, the rich and the famous, life hasn´t always been easy and walk in the park. Behind the scenes there has been a huge amount of work and energy invested by them to reach where you see them today.

If you want to learn the reality of the people you admire and what many of them had to endure, overcome and suffer, just like you may have to, start reading their biographies.

There are thousands of famous people who before reaping the rewards of success have hit all time lows in their life. However, with these people even when they were at their lowest they managed to find the inner strength to get up, take a deep breath and carry on moving forward towards their dreams. Dedication has been their motto.

Sylvester Stallone

Take Sylvester Stallone. At one point in his life he was so broke that he stole his wife’s jewellery and sold it. He even ended up homeless and slept in a bus station for 3 days. His lowest point came when he had to sell his dog for only $25. He says he walked away crying.

Two weeks later, he saw a boxing match between Mohammed Ali and Chuck Wepner and that match gave him the inspiration to write the script for the famous movie, ROCKY.

Henry Ford

While Henry Ford is today known for his innovative assembly line and American-made cars, he wasn’t an instant success. In fact, his early businesses failed and left him broke five time before he founded the successful Ford Motor Company.

Bill Gates

Bill Gates didn’t seem like a shoe-in for success after dropping out of Harvard and starting a failed first business with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen called Traf-O-Data. While this early idea didn’t work, Gates’ later work did, creating the global empire that is Microsoft.

Oprah Winfrey

Most people know Oprah Winfrey as one of the most iconic faces on TV as well as one of the richest and most successful women in the world. Oprah faced a hard road to get to that position, however, enduring a rough and often abusive childhood as well as numerous career setbacks including being fired from her job as a television reporter because she was “unfit for tv.”

Babe Ruth

You probably know Babe Ruth the famous baseball player because of his home run record (714 during his career), but along with all those home runs came a pretty hefty amount of strikeouts as well (1,330 in all). In fact, for decades he held the record for strikeouts. When asked about this he simply said, “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”

Anthony Robbins

Anthony Robbins tells the story of his rise and falls before becoming one of the most successful people on the planet and one of the most famous personal development gurus of today. His net worth in dollars is phenomenal and his success isn´t just limited to personal development empires.

He was coined “The Golden Boy” in business before he turned 21 years old and was high on the ladder of success when all of a sudden business turned sour and his world of financial hero quickly fell apart. He lost everything and ended up reverting to living in a small apartment, depressed and using food as a distraction to his situation almost to the point of obesity.

His life at that point was on a very fast downward spiral of self destruction. However, the man who eventually floated just one of his companies on the stock exchange for over 200 million dollars found something very profound deep within himself to turn his life around. He was resolute. He dug his feet in, set himself some goals and started to claw his way back to the top again.

Today, Anthony Robbins is himself one of the most famous success stories of perseverance and dedication to personal goals in life walking the planet. He has been in Hollywood movies, runs billion dollar empires and is personal development trainer to the richest and most famous people in the world. His list of accolades is as long as his arm, which is really long for a physical giant of a man towering almost 7 feet tall, and is certainly someone worth looking up on the internet.